Tag: Apple
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Another new way to connect a Mac to a monitor, another adapter for the collection
According to Apple news website Mac Rumors, Apple’s forthcoming range of hardware include monitors that connect via the recently-introduced Thunderbolt connector. When I gave a lecture earlier this year in Oxford, the venue technician asked if I had a Mac and produced a box of adapters. “Mac? One of these should fit it”. There were…
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Nine months with an Apple Magic Trackpad
As of this week, Apple will be offering customers of new desktop Macs the choice of either a Magic Trackpad or a Magic Mouse for no extra cost. Multitouch is here to stay. Since I first saw a multitouch device, the original iPhone, I have always wanted to see more multitouch technology find its way…
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Why the Apple Tablet will be the ‘Computer for the rest of us’
Amongst all of the speculation about the rumoured forthcoming ‘Apple Tablet’ computer, I came across an excellent article entitled Why The Tablet Will Finally Be Steve Jobs’ “Computer For the Rest of Us” on Cult of Mac. It sums up what was important about the iPhone – hiding the complexity of the workings of the…
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iMovie ’08 on a 1.8GHz single processor G5
According to the system requirements for Apple’s newest incarnation of iLife (iLife ’08), iMovie ’08 shouldn’t work on my machine (an ‘original’ 2003 1.8GHz SP G5 with 1GB RAM). The installer runs a system check before it installs iLife (as it did on my G4 laptop) to see if your system meets the minimum requirements…
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iPod woes
Recently, my 2 year old 4G iPod broke. I was listening to a podcast whilst walking to work when the audio froze. I took it out of my pocket and found that everything had frozen – the UI as well as playback. I tried to reset it on the move, but nothing could unfreeze it.…
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17″ Apple PowerBook screen problems
[Update] The line is back, despite after disappearing temporarily after a reboot. See the photo below. [Update 2: 2nd May] A second line has appeared 6 pixels to the left of the first one 🙁 [Update 3: 10th May]A third line, this time magenta, is now flickering on and off 495px in from the left.…
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Apple’s iPhone will be a closed platform?
I’ve been a Mac user for over 3 years now, and like most Mac users, I was excited when Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at Macworld San Francisco on Tuesday. Apart from the device looking utterly amazing in every way, it was revealed that it actually runs a version of OSX. Wow. Or so I…